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Subject: Re: We're royally fucked

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Alan

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Date Posted: 01:36:23 07/02/02 Tue
In reply to: Anne 's message, "Re: We're royally fucked" on 05:16:07 07/01/02 Mon

>>>The Bill of Rights is to protect the *innocent*. Not
>>>help the guilty get off on a technicality.
>>
>>It is to protect the innocent precisely BY allowing
>>the guilty to get off on "technicalities." I believe
>>firmly that it is better to let a hundred guilty
>>people go free than to send one innocent to prison.
>>
>>Alan
>
>Hmmm, well what a shame that the cops didn't screw up
>(maybe *mistakenly* - you assume that the police are
>out to overstep their authority every time they turn
>around) when they went to arrest Andrea Yates. Then
>maybe the poor woman could have gotten off. I'm sure
>you would agree.
>
>Anne

That's a gross misunderstanding of the nature of the usual so-called "technicalities." They usually go more along the lines of searching people and their homes and cars because they are a minority or "granola."

Alan

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Re: We're royally fucked	Anne	05:22:57 07/02/02 Tue